In the Dutch Maritime Museum in Amsterdam there are several dividers which
also have a sundial insription along several astronimical sliderule
inscriptions. No pictures available on the web but only Dutch descriptions.
If you happen to be in Amsterdam it is a visit worth!


At 17:26 18-6-00 -0400, you wrote:
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>This rings a bell with me.  If memory serves me correctly, I recall seeing
>some Renaissance mathematical instruments like sectors or folding squares
>that had hour scales on them.  These were scales not for laying out sundials
>(dialling scales were not uncommon on these instruments), but were scales to
>be used for telling time.  They worked as altitude dials.  When the two arms
>of the instrument were opened to form a right angle, and a gnomon pin was
>placed in a hole on one arm, its shadow would fall on the other arm's scale.
> 
>
>A carpenter's square, suitably inscribed, could be used in a similar
>manner.
>
>Cheers, 
>Sara Schechner
>39:00 N 77:01 W
>
>
>
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